Researchers Stunned to Find First Compelling Skeletal Evidence of a Gladiator Bitten by a Lion In the past, experts have ...

A Roman gladiator’s skeleton has provided the first piece of physical evidence of combat between a human and a large cat, archaeologists said. The skeleton, likely of a man who died between the ages ...

Images of gladiators being bitten by lions have appeared in ancient mosaics and pottery for hundreds of years. However, this ...

A man who lived in Roman-occupied Britain was bitten by a big cat, probably in a gladiator arena, an analysis of his remains ...

A groundbreaking study involving our Department of Archaeology has uncovered the first physical evidence of human-animal ...

A Roman gladiator’s skeleton has provided the first piece of physical evidence of combat between a human and a large cat, ...

Researchers compared puncture marks on an 1,800-year-old skeleton in the UK to various animal bites, and concluded that the ...

Blood, sand, and death – for Romans, there was no better entertainment than watching gladiators fight exotic animals in ...

Gladiator combat is a well-documented aspect of ancient Roman society, but the physical remains of fighters have remained ...

In a breakthrough that blends ancient design with modern materials science, researchers at the University of Houston have ...

Bite marks discovered on the skeleton of a gladiator in Roman-era England suggest the man faced off with a lion in the arena, ...

Researchers reexamining fossils identified telltale marks made by human ancestors cutting meat from bones. The discovery ...